Stage 1
Poetry entries are sent to the producers for screening from August until December, 2008.
Stage 2
The judging process kickstarts from December 2008 to February 2009. The results of 10 winning poets from 10 countries are announced in March 2009.
Stage 3
Winning poets are invited to a 2 month poetry residence programme/mentorship programme on situational writing, media relations, perfomance poetry and the crafts of perfomance poetry, arts management and administration from April-May 2009.
Stage 4
Publication of winning poems, project catalogue, cdroms, poetry reading festival and distribution of published material.
Stage 5
Organising comunity based poetry/writing projects in each winning country, winning poets as a agents of coordination. Continuity of poetry tour events, festivals and publications.
Sunday, May 4, 2008
Friday, April 11, 2008
Themes
Themes of the contest include:
HIV/Aids, democracy, corruption, culture, social life, economic hardships, human rights, gender, child abuse, and domestic violence.
Each winner will be selected from writing on these themes, so each theme and the winning contestant represents a country of winner origin, the winner will working with others in workshops and resiedence programes in order to improve africa through poetry. The judges are international poets with repute and understanding of themes and subject matters as well are well read people.
HIV/Aids, democracy, corruption, culture, social life, economic hardships, human rights, gender, child abuse, and domestic violence.
Each winner will be selected from writing on these themes, so each theme and the winning contestant represents a country of winner origin, the winner will working with others in workshops and resiedence programes in order to improve africa through poetry. The judges are international poets with repute and understanding of themes and subject matters as well are well read people.
Submission Guidelines
To be applicable to the chatroom contest:
-you need to be 16-33 years of age, writing in English.
-send entry before December 2008.
-write on 1 of the 10 themes.
-give your contact details, phone, email, address, website.
Submissions can be sent to africapoetrychatroom@gmail.com or artofpoetrytrain@yahoo.co.uk. Please address submissions to Mbizo Chirasha, with the subject line "AFRICA POETRY CHATROOM CONTEST".
-you need to be 16-33 years of age, writing in English.
-send entry before December 2008.
-write on 1 of the 10 themes.
-give your contact details, phone, email, address, website.
Submissions can be sent to africapoetrychatroom@gmail.com or artofpoetrytrain@yahoo.co.uk. Please address submissions to Mbizo Chirasha, with the subject line "AFRICA POETRY CHATROOM CONTEST".
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
africa poetry celeb chatroom poetry competition
THE african drums book and poetry tour intiative project in 2008 is africa poetry chatroom , calling for poets from 10 countries poetry writers to participate in a contest that will lead to a poet in residence programme in any african country to the winners of the contest.details to be furnished soo n.
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